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WASP-10
Sign in to saveWASP-10 is a star 461 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. It hosts a transiting planet discovered by the SuperWASP project.
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- Object type
- V*
- Spectral type
- K5V
- Distance
- 461 light-years
- Redshift
- z = -0.00003889281717450732
- Coordinates
- RA 348.9929° · Dec 31.4629°
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WASP-10 is a star 461 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. It hosts a transiting planet discovered by the SuperWASP project.
The star is likely older than the Sun, has a fraction of heavy elements close to the solar abundance, and is rotating rapidly, being spun up by the tides raised by the giant planet on a close orbit.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WASP-10” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.